On the link between Marijuana and homosexuality

“I’m wondering if the erosion of the strict taboo against drug use, at least in one’s youth, has to do with the fact that so many of us have known, or at least been around, marijuana users for a long time. We know that most people can use the stuff without ruining their lives, or disqualifying themselves from public service. If so, then it tracks with the erosion of the taboo against homosexuality among younger Americans, who have had more direct experience of being around gay people.”

So we really care that a top politician once smoked weed? No. What we care about is that they should go in their adult life to say how it destroys lives. It doesn’t. Class does. Opportunity foes. Poverty does.